Thread:Mixed talk/@comment-30866120-20180908134840/@comment-27493717-20180910051421

Hmm...

Yesterday, I worked on some templates and tested the video archive on the new WikiFarm. Now I wonder, if Wikia stores videos locally on their servers, as loading the videos directly from YouTube works fine when working on the WikiFarm from my main computer, but causes a severe lag when even as much as viewing the same article from my laptop.

I am going to configure the uploads and upload a video for testing. If it does work, then we are going to store videos locally and add source links in their descriptions instead of directly loading them from YouTube.

I also noticed, that the WikiFarm was suddenly having trackers and loading more pages than just YouTube when I was linking their videos. And I don't want any trackers or advertisements on my WikiFarm, which is another reason why I am going to continue testing and changing this.

Depending on how well hosting videos on the WikiFarm works, I might either keep copies at our servers or feature a thumbnail image with a link to the original file.